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Boosting a Civil Rights Legacy

With New Museum, Atlanta Aims to Expand Claim to Being the Movement's Home

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Karishma Mehrotra

June 18, 2014 7:03 p.m. ET

ATLANTA—Civic leaders here long have attempted to draw visitors with the claim that Atlanta is the home of the civil-rights movement.

Yet a major historical site, encompassing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s house and crypt, has been plagued for years by organizational troubles, squabbles among King family members and wobbly attendance—even...